Can you take 2 Benadryl with two Tylenol?!


Question: Can you take 2 Benadryl with two Tylenol?
I am sick with a minor cold and am taking 2 Benadryl as directed on the bottle to help clear up my symptoms. I have also just started my period, and am having minor cramps that i need a little pain medicine, like Tylenol, to get rid of the pain. And that brings me to my question: Can a person take the adult dose of Benadryl and an adult dose of Tylenol and be okay, and have no problems medically?

Answers:

yes you can do this



There should be no problem with this combination, as long as it's plain benadryl. I don't get much relief from benadryl and prefer medications like sudafed. There are other decongestants that are more effective decongestants, just ask the pharmacist for over the counter medications. Benadryl can make you really drowsy, especially 2 pills, but sometimes that's fine when all you feel like doing is resting. Hope you feel better soon.

RN



Yes. Benadryl is an antihistamine and Tylenol is a acetaminophen. The two may be taken together according to the package instructions. The Benadryl will cause drowsiness. Do not take with alcohol.



You Can take it but you shouldn't..Benadryl has tylenol in it..by taking more you could risk doing damage to your liver and Kidneys.
Side Effects of Taking Too Much Tylenol
Tylenol, or acetaminophen, is one of the most commonly used over-the-counter medicines. It is used as an anti-inflammatory, as a pain reliever and as a fever reducer. Despite being over-the-counter, taking too much Tylenol can have serious consequences, including permanent liver damage and death. The side effects of taking too much Tylenol depend on the time after the ingestion.

Early Phase
Within hours of taking too much Tylenol, a person might feel dizzy with nausea and vomiting. Patients can have sweating and a generalized feeling of being sick, or malaise. Patients also might appear pale. If the ingestion is caught at this point, treatment with a medicine called acetylcysteine can prevent subsequent liver damage.

Middle phase
About a day after taking too much Tylenol, the initial symptoms might resolve and a patient may feel like she is back to normal. Sometimes she will have abdominal pain, particularly in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen, where the liver is located. The liver is the organ most severely affected by Tylenol overdoses. At this point, patients exhibit changes in their liver function, with elevated liver enzymes, reflecting early liver damage. Other abnormalities include jaundice, due to increased bilirubin, another substance that the liver metabolizes; and decreased ability of the body to clot off blood, another function in which the liver plays an important role.

Late Phase
Three to four days after the initial overdose, the liver has suffered its maximum damage. At this point, patients again experience nausea and vomiting, and show signs of fulminant liver failure, with pain, pronounced jaundice, easy bruising and bleeding. The kidney also becomes affected. After this patient either resolve their dysfunction, or progress to coma and death, if untreated. Most patients would need a liver transplant to survive.




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